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| The park's entrance...it's a long haul UP! |
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| Ok, we can do this...how much time do we have?! |
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| So we begin the ascent...through beautiful crevices and creeks as we wind our way up. |
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| Two roads, diverged in a single wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by... ...and hit a dead end. Climbed another mountain and had to turn around. |
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| The scenery was breathtaking. I could not reach the waterfall to put my head in....but I would have if I could have! |
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| Ms Ellen and I split off from the other group, looked at the far mountain ahead of us and realized that was where we needed to be. We hiked back down to the base to catch a ski lift cable car going up. We were afraid of running out of time and we wanted to get on that glass platform! |
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| Look, Ellen, there's a lake behind us! |
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| What a picture perfect day- cool, crisp & breezy, and a simply gorgeous blue sky. Is this really Beijing?! |
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| Riding up the gondola we saw this reservoir behind us. The sunlight sparkling on the water made me soooo homesick for sailing. |
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| Though we sprung the 100rmb for the ride up, we had AT LEAST another 30 sets of stairs still to climb. |
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| Each time we paused to catch our breath or to take a drink of water, the view was incredible. |
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| We kept our eye on the prize- the glass platform! |
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| The top of the mountain had a park area for resting, with these beautiful bronze statues that represent the Chinese calendar. My birth year is the rabbit. |
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| Ellen's birth year is the dog. |
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| Pete had his ticket and looked ready to go out on the glass platform behind him. It was the perfect day to do such a crazy thing! |
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| The crazy Irish lads, James, and Ciaran, thought nothing of walking about the glass! |
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| Some sillies took to laying on the glass- Deanna! |
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| Rebecca and Dequilah seemed content, too. |
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| I, on the other hand, shuffle footed along like an old woman. Surprisingly I felt safest sitting down! |
Click on the link for a video of clip of his accomplishment! Robert Sax did it!
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| Chinglish signs help bring a smile...thankfully I did not fall down today! I was worn out afterward. At the end of the day, Ellen's fit bit said we climbed 76 flights of stairs, nearly 10k steps, and almost 4 miles. It felt like much more than that today- it was challenging. |
It literally has been a day of highs and lows, as I am still driving the struggle bus daily. I am trying to get back to happy, but I just do not feel like myself. Days like today help- to put my face to the sun- to be out in nature- and to think of happier times, but I am not THERE yet. I am trying; I guess that's about all that counts. I keep facing forward, I keep putting one foot in front of the other, even when it takes me up mountains and back down again. I keep praying for peace to restore my soul. Until then,
G'nite, y'all
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